Eastern Sierra Nevada

The Sierra Nevada Range is the longest and highest mountain range in the United States.
In the High Sierra, it is only 80 miles from the highest peak, Mt. Whitney (14,494 ft.), to the lowest point in the Western Hemisphere, Badwater Basin, Death Valley National Park (282 ft. below sea level).
The eastern side of the Sierra Nevada borders the Great Basin Desert. US 395 runs all the way along the base of this part of the range through Owens Valley and into the lesser hills around Mono Lake.